Is Jennifer Lawrence Good Or Bad?

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Because there is nothing more important than determining the relative goodness and/or badness of a famous person, we decided there was no better time than now to determine once and for all whether or not Jennifer Lawrence, specifically, is good or bad.

Why now? Well, Lawrence is currently starring in mother!, one of the year’s most contentious movies, which even has a contentious title. (The lower case “m”! The exclamation point! Contentious!)

Further, Lawrence herself has long been a contentious figure. People love her for her goofy, plain-spoken demeanor and gloriously klutzy physicality, but also people hate her for her goofy, plain-spoken demeanor and gloriously klutzy physicality. Lawrence is not quite at Anne Hathaway-levels of love-her-or-hate-her sentiments but give her time. She’s bound to host the Oscars at some point or another. Before that happens though, and the court of public opinion passes its final verdict, we think it’s important to determine for ourselves, and also for all of you, whether or not Lawrence is actually good or bad.

Now you may be asking: How can we determine this without actually knowing Lawrence?

That’s a good and fair question. The honest answer is: We can’t, but we still think we can, mostly because of new information we recently acquired (more on that in just a second).

First, let’s discuss why Lawrence is good.

She has been in at least one very good movie (Winter’s Bone) and has been very good in other good movies (The Hunger Games films, Silver Linings Playbook,American Hustle). She has even been good in not good movies, which I won’t mention here, because why focus on them?

Now, we’re going to discuss why Lawrence is bad. You are probably thinking, Clearly she is good because of all the reasons listed above. You are probably also thinking, I am so glad none of the above reasons mention things like the fact that Lawrence is “a guy’s girl” or that time she handled Jack Nicholson’s creepy flirts so well. Thank you! Well, you are welcome. But anyway, here’s why Lawrence is bad. (This, in case you’re wondering, is the information we recently acquired, and it’s really the reason we’re writing any of this, to begin with.)

She yells things like, “We’re going down! We’re coming down!” while on an airplane. This is bad. This is bad!

In conclusion: Lawrence is still good, but she does bad things on airplanes. Please, Jennifer, don’t do those things anymore. Thank you.